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Major Civil Right Protest
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Brown v. Board of Education
A African American girl named Linda Brown went to a black school. Her father Oliver Brown wanted to enroll his daughter Linda in an white school but the principal refused to let her go to the white school.Oliver went to NAACP and asked for help. Leter other african american parents asked the NAACP for help and the trail begined -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans in Mongomery, Albama decided to boycott the city bus until they were able to be seated where ever they wanted to -
Woolworth's Sit-in
there were 4 African American colleage students that sat down at a lunch counter in Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina and asked to be served, they were refused to be served. Then they were asked to leave and the 4 of them stayed there until they were served -
Freedom Rides
It was to test desegration on buses in the south.There were 7 blacks and 6 whites who left together in two buses to the deep south they were met with violence and President Kennedy had to send in federal troops. -
Birmingingham Children's March and Boycott
They were protesting againist segrated schools. They were
arrested, then released from jail then taked back again -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was for job and freedom rights and it took place in Washington D.C. There were about 250,000 people there it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital and one of the first to have extensive television coverage -
Selma to Montgomery March
About 600,000 people began a 54 mile march from Selma, Albama to the state capitol in Mongomery. They were fight for ther voting rights
